Fly Away Home (1996)
Jeff Daniels: Thomas Alden
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Quotes
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Amy Alden : Mama to Papa. That was so cool!
Thomas Alden : Yeah, great. I just made a criminal out of my own daughter. Now we'll both do time behind bars.
Amy Alden : Dad, stop being so dramatic.
Thomas Alden : Now, look, this is just the beginning, Amy. We've got to make 120 nautical miles by sundown, fly across Lake Ontario, cross an international boundary without a permit carrying stolen goods, without filing a flight plan, without any official approval, four days behind schedule. We're on the edge, my dear.
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[watching Amy lead the geese around]
Thomas Alden : It's amazing, isn't it, how they, uh, follow her around like that?
DNR Officer : Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's, uh, called imprinting. The first living thing a goose sees when it's born, it automatically assume is its mother.
Thomas Alden : Huh.
DNR Officer : They'll follow her anywhere.
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David Alden : With this baby you could fly over the Empire State Building.
Thomas Alden : Or end up as a big pound of ground round. One of the two.
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[first lines]
Thomas Alden : Amy? It's your dad.
Amy Alden : Dad?
Thomas Alden : I came down from Canada. I've come to take you home.
Amy Alden : Where's Mom?
Thomas Alden : Um...
Amy Alden : Mum died, didn't she?
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Susan Barnes : [about the plan to fly south with the geese] This will never work!
Thomas Alden : [confused] But I thought you liked the geese.
Susan Barnes : [shouts] I *DO* LIKE THE GEESE!
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Amy Alden : [the ranger picks up Igor, one of Amy's goslings] Excuse me, sir, please leave him alone.
DNR Officer : Your name's Amy, isn't it? Well Amy, these geese belong to the crown.
Amy Alden : What crown?
DNR Officer : That's the Queen of England.
Thomas Alden : Pinioning?
Susan Barnes : I have no idea.
DNR Officer : She made rules. It's for the good of the goose, it's for the good of the people. Now what you do is you take the wing and you just shave a bit off the cuticle here--
[prepares to cut the tip off Igor's wing with a fingernail clipper]
Amy Alden : [utterly enraged] WHAT ARE YOU DOING?
[shoots up from her chair and hits the ranger on the head with a bowl of popcorn]
Amy Alden : STOP IT! STOP IT! STOP IT! STOP IT!
Thomas Alden : [indignantly grabs the ranger and hauls him to the door] What the hell are you doing?
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Thomas Alden : GET OFF OF MY LAND!
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Thomas Alden : Knock them off!
Hunter : Holy shit!